| A | B |
| Storyboard | A layout of scenes in a movie |
| Soundtrack | Musical background of a movie |
| Keyframe | An intermediate frame in an animation where the key (most important) actions occur |
| Pencil Testing | Matched keyframes to the soundtrack |
| In-between frames | Drawn to fill-in between the keyframes |
| Drawings | Traced onto plastic cels and painted |
| Cels | Photographed onto film |
| Images or Frames | Can be scanned into the computers or created by artists |
| Tweening | An animation process that uses keyframes between two images |
| Frame by Frame | Animation using rapid sequences of still images |
| Persistence of Vision | The way our eyes retain images for a split second longer than they actually appear to seem like continuous motion |
| Flipbook | A method of frame-by-frame animation. Used to simulate the earliest form of animation |
| Computer Assisted Animation | Uses the computer to enhance sketched images |
| Computer Generated Animation | All animation and images are created on the computer |
| Motion Capture | Actors wear special suits to allow the computer to coy their motions onto the computer |